For those interested he was transferred to an HDU from which, he is delirious, he is now trying to discharge himself from. Two stomas. Two IVs . Unable to walk. Asking for fags and collapso. 
and yes interested, we've got to know Nod by proxy through your tales over the years. Wish him well but I suspect it's going to be downhill from here.
Wot he said ….. on the smoking front …when my mother was in a hospice ..there was a lounge area where one of the patients used to come to borrow fags off visitors ….one day a nurse told him to stop smoking …(it was allowed at that time in that room ) ….
He shouted at her …If I can’t smoke when I am dying ..when can I …….a moment that has stuck with me ….
